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by tzs 1487 days ago
Maybe it depends on what you Spotify Connect to?

I use it daily connecting to an Echo Dot from an iPad or iMac, and it definitely is not autoplaying anything.

What are you connecting to?

According to this page [1], they changed it earlier this year in response to those complaints the original article talks about:

> We're happy to announce that the option to manage Autoplay has been released for the desktop and now for the mobile app too.

> Once you have the latest version installed, you will find it as "Autoplay on other devices" in the Settings menu and it will apply globally for connected devices and the web player.

> Note that you will need to log in and toggle the setting on or off on either the PC/Mac or Smartphone apps, but once done you can continue using Spotify on whichever platform you prefer and the setting you chose will be reflected accurately.

Mine is behaving like that.

[1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Implemented-Ideas/AutoPlay-...

2 comments

There are definitely target dependencies. I just tested on Echo Dot, Echo Show, Google Home Mini, and Denon AVR-1913. On all but the Denon it obeys the autoplay setting. On the Denon it does not autoplay regardless of the setting. So maybe there are devices where it disobeys like my Denon but defaults to autoplay?
Interesting, I hadn’t heard that they had added a second auto play setting. Not that there was anything wrong with the old setting…

Anyway, I’m seeing that new setting now and it seems to be working so far, thanks for the tip!